The video card has its own fans and cooling of course, and the CPU has a gigantic heatsink and fan combo applied to it. The SSD gets to sit underneath a hot component with just a heatsink. SSDs are designed to get hot, but the components don’t all equally do well under high heat.

It’s not going to make the proprietary drives Microsoft uses any cheaper either, though.

Am I the only one who feels like Expandable memory was an after thought on the PS5?

The only reason I can imagine for why they’d need a heatsink is two-fold. 1. If the games necessitate the near constant running of the drive at nearly full-speed while playing. 2. The PS5 has poor cooling and ventilation.

More than likely someone will streamline and produce PS5 oriented versions of their drives in the near future. XBox’s method will remain slightly easier, but we’ll see if they’re able to keep up with capacity the way being able to bring your own drive offers. 2TB of SSD space is pretty easy to fill up with modern…

i’m not mad, though i am preplexed, at the super limited on-board hard drive space on the 5

I’m not going to advocate for things to be harder than they need to be, but with the recent push for “right to repair,” it’s likely healthy for all of us to lose some of the stigma of opening our devices. It’s not a hard process and if in upgrading their system people learn more about it it’s to all of our benefit.

My PC acts as a space heater when it’s on, so it goes off when I go to bed.

Yes and no. Basically it’s holding devices that need less power to rules where they actually use less power, and allowing more powerful devices to have more leeway. It also doesn’t apply to building your own computer at all, although there are some real possible ramifications with the requirements about monitor…

The way the law is structured actually favors more powerful computers (including those with high end graphics cards.) Those machines get more exceptions and have a higher headroom to be approved than lower power devices, which are subject to more stringent rules. Shipping the graphics card separately (which system…

This is just Dell being lazy not bothering to get certain computers approved and only selling ones they’ve already done so with. And the restrictions aren’t on active power usage so much as they’re on lower states of power like sleep mode.

Some games make it fairly easy. I can see going out of your way for an achievement or few to finish a set. But a lot of achievements are pure busywork. I’ve got way too many games I’m not playing already to be farming achievements for the ones I currently am.

I suspect he’s mostly surprised how upset people get not being able to collect all of their virtual points. A great many people are in the topic arguing, “yes, but I want to get all of them...” ignoring the point of why you can’t. If getting the achievement is more important than being able to try interesting…

Why is the console version a better execution on the idea? The player never sees it.

I think I own like one game on Steam with 100% of the achievements? Doesn’t mean I don’t care about them at all or won’t notice them, especially if I’m close to finishing all of them.

Honestly you’re coming off a little bitter. Why can’t the author talk about his art without having gamers getting upset that he has? You don’t have to applaud him for what he’s done but why begrudge him even talking about what he’s made?

The only people in this situation that are probably even going to notice are the hunters. It’s a joke... sorry, ‘distillation of the central premise’ that falls flat on an audience that won’t appreciate it, regardless of it’s artistic intention.

I don’t think you’re told you’ll get a later reward, but it only takes three to get one. The difference between the two is apparently something like 10% across the whole game (assuming you pick either all save or all harvest), and the the rewards you get from saving are exclusive if I recall, so it only takes a little…

It just feels like you’re arguing that achievements have to pander to completionists and you can never use them for any other purpose. And I disagree. There are plenty of games that do, but here, it’s a meta conceit, It’s the one thing you can’t have no matter how hard you try (short of spoofing it, which I imagine is…

Engineer was really fun in multiplayer. Before all the crazy classes got added I think it was my most played there. I played Solider I think my first playthrough of ME1, and back then it made a lot of sense given how poor the guns are early on otherwise (on Legendary Edition you can actually hit things with the sniper…